Surgery stuff.
I'm the user vorarephilia. you probably know me from such classic jokes as "hopping on the bandwagon" and "pop culture reference to that show everyone watched" and "Oh god someone get him off the soap box this is physically painful"
I somewhat recently had a knee surgery, and this post is to answer questions most of you probably have.
Probable question #1:
Thank you. As it turns out, I probably wouldn't either.
Next probable question for those of you pretending to care out of politeness:
Well this is kinda stupid, but I dislocated my kneecap in a car accident involving a single stationary vehicle two months ago. Yes, climbing out of minivans after cleaning rear windows as a favor to your mother when you are 6'2" is a dangerous activity. As far as I am aware, my left kneecap decided that living inside a groove for 80 something years before the skeleton wars just wasn't enough excitement, and decided to explore the area outside it, punching my femer hard enough to make it swell. I immediately fell and starting unleashing a torrent of highly intelligent phrases to explain my distress to the world at large. after a while, the pain relaxed enough that i grabbed a broomstick and hobbled inside to a sofa and did what any rational minded person would do in this situation. Call someone. Then I did the not so rational thing of asking FJ users if I should go to a doctor. They said yes if only to get me to stop ******** up the place for a bit, and so i did. skipping the boring details, physical therapy failed to help me, and so I was referred to an orthopedic surgeon who specialized in this kind of injury.
He looked at the mri, poked it a bit, and basically said "yeah, Ima need to fix this". he then asked when I could get the surgery. since I already met my deductable and thus all medical expenses until next year are as free as European hospitals (not counting the expenses to get to that point), I basically demanded he do me right now. flattered, he said he wasn't avaliable, but would have some time on the 8th, and so I accepted. And what a perfect day to do it. After all, in 1941, america was sore after getting a bit of *********** by the sneaky gooks. Had to write my first will and I even left a dead man switch for FJ. If the gods of anesthetic decided "yeah **** that guy" I would obviously be unable to stop a post uploading 10 days after my surgery, releasing a message saying such sappy things as "Please live happy since I can no longer do so." "Goodbye and thanks for all the laughs. It was a fun ride."I even had my real initials. Glad I got to stop that one piece of cringe.
Immediately after surgery, and probably due to the cocktail of drugs that would make a junkie jizz themselves to be in the same room, I had what was like a dream involving someone opening my bedroom door to check on me and then jolting awake to someone opening my bedroom door to check on me and then jolting awake to someone... you get the picture. it took me 8 times of that to realize that something was amiss. This video below is about the closest thing I have found to what it felt like.
Trippy as hell. Anyway, day 2 was hard as **** . It felt like a sprain, several cuts, and a fracture, all in the same area. I counted the minutes to each Norco, which is like Vicodin, but stronger somehow. Day 3 was when I was in enough reduced pain that I could play Factorio. and then it was day 14 I swear to ******* god that game eats time like your mom eats dicks. Got bandages off, and nubs of stitches removed, since the rest would dissolve by itself.
Skipping again, we reach today. I completed my last quad set as part of physical therapy round 2, and feel tired. pitiful, but expected, after how much they did.
Potential question 3: Holy **** you ramble don't you.
yeah sorry. Tl;DR Got hurt. Got surgery. Can currently bend knee 25 degrees max.
potential question 4: Pics or it didn't happen.
gottcha fam.
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IT is a lot less swollen than it used to be. used to look like i had a melon underneath a blanket.
Potential question 5: what did they do exactly?
this:
If you want to watch a doctor do this to an old ladies stump, click this www.arthrex.com/resources/video/veFcpUaps0u_5QFB2u25mA/medial-patellofemoral-ligament-reconstruction-arthrex-anatomic-double-bundle-technique (Warning. surgical gore. **** unless your job is in the medical field.)
Potential question 6: When will you stop bitching about it?
Once i want to.
Potential question 7: What are your plans after this?
A: continue college. probably get a motorcycle.
Potential question 8: you can't be serious.
A: I am. If getting out of a stationary minivan damaged my knee, either i'm supposed to be 'free from the cage' as it were (If i had more damn space this would never have happened.), or it'll just kill me, sparing me the humiliation of having gotten my ass kicked by a minivan.
Potential question 9: do you recommend factorio in its current state or should I buy it once complete?
A: let me put it this way, I am a cheap ass, and I pirate things a lot. so when I shelled more than required to get the game, and not a single regret about basically buying the game for twice the minimum, you know I love it. I don't think it is for everyone, so go play the demo (how rare is that? 2015 and a ******* demo. Might as well have a call in customer service too. Awesome is what that is), and decide for yourself it it is something you'd like. and keep an eye out for buildings named "VoraofFJ" ;)
Welp that is all I care enough to type out, tune in next time when I repost something from reddit like the shameless thumbwhore I am. Have a merry christmas to all my ****** .
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